Events
LAB 1
Conscious Filmic Self-Description: Self-Censorship and Female Stereotypes.
Guided by Olalla Luque Colmenero and Silvia Soler Gallego (Kaleidoscope Access)
February 20, 2025
Description
Film self-description can be defined as a type of intersemiotic translation, whereby images are translated into words. This process is employed in cinema to enable blind or low-vision individuals to form a mental image of what is occurring on screen. However, as with any element of our society, it is not immune to the influence of machismo, which occasionally finds in audiodescription an ideal space to spread freely.
The present workshop will therefore engage with critical analysis of recent examples of film audiodescriptions, alongside the exploration of the tools and techniques available for audio-description. The texts will be analysed, and participants will engage in conscious audiodescription practices with the aim of combatting stereotypes.
LAB 2
Cinematic Objects: From the Screen to Painting.
Guided by Alejandra Vera, Paulina Silva, and Tatiana Fernández (La Raíz Lab)
April 4-5, 2025
Description
The objective of this workshop is to facilitate an interdisciplinary exploration of the symbolic, narrative and emotional functions of cinematic objects. The theoretical framework will then be applied to a practical exercise involving the creation of a visual representation.
Utilising a dualistic approach encompassing both theoretical and practical elements, participants will engage in a rigorous examination of how objects transcend their utilitarian function to become pivotal elements that define characters, establish the ambiance of eras, incite conflicts, or embody universal themes.
LAB 3
Feminist Creation of Expanded Cinema from the Archive
Guided by Rocío Mesa (Filmmaker)
May 14, 2025
University Institute for Research on Women's and Gender Studies (University of Granada) – Seminar Room 6
Free admission with prior registration at: gendermedialab@ugr.es (send us your name and the main reason why you want to take this workshop).
Description
This workshop offers a critical and experimental approach to the archive as a device for feminist audiovisual creation, from a perspective situated at the intersections of expanded cinema, visual anthropology, and nonlinear narratives. Using found materials, home recordings, and other elements and devices, we will explore strategies of reappropriation, displacement, and reinterpretation of obsolete images, understanding the archive not as a passive repository but as a living territory, crossed by tensions of power, memory, and subjectivity.
The workshop is designed as an intensive lab introducing key concepts such as expanded montage, film essay, reactivation of latent memories, and the creation of dissident narratives. Through editing exercises, collective dialogue, and intermedia explorations, participants will be invited to experiment with narrative forms that go beyond canonical processes and promote active listening to the visual remnants of the past.
This space is open to individuals over 18 years old from any background. It may be of particular interest to visual artists, filmmakers, researchers, anthropologists, and anyone interested in critical uses of the archive through contemporary audiovisual practices.
LAB 4
Ethnography and Cinema
Guided by Marian del Moral (Cultural Anthropologist)
June 13, 2025
University Institute for Research on Women's and Gender Studies (University of Granada)
PERMANENT SEMINAR ON ETHNOGRAPHY AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY
Session “Ethnography and Imaginaries”
National Coordination of Anthropology and National Ethnography Program (CNAN–PRONE)
20 November 2025
Mexico City
SEMINAR ON ANTHROPOLOGY AND CINEMA
Anthropologists and filmmakers researching and creating film from a contemporary anthropological approach.
Marian Del Moral: Film-ethnography: experimental methodologies in film creation by women.
Anna Fonoll-Tassier: From the “periphery”: contemporary Iberian documentary film made by women as a driver of change and experimentation.
Amanda Gutiérrez: The junkie in Spanish cinema: representations of the marginal body as a political territory and cinematic counter-narratives.
1–2 December 2025
Faculty of Communication Sciences (University of Malaga)
Events
LAB 1
Conscious Filmic Self-Description: Self-Censorship and Female Stereotypes.
Guided by Olalla Luque Colmenero and Silvia Soler Gallego (Kaleidoscope Access)
February 20, 2025
Description
Film self-description can be defined as a type of intersemiotic translation, whereby images are translated into words. This process is employed in cinema to enable blind or low-vision individuals to form a mental image of what is occurring on screen. However, as with any element of our society, it is not immune to the influence of machismo, which occasionally finds in audiodescription an ideal space to spread freely.
The present workshop will therefore engage with critical analysis of recent examples of film audiodescriptions, alongside the exploration of the tools and techniques available for audio-description. The texts will be analysed, and participants will engage in conscious audiodescription practices with the aim of combatting stereotypes.
LAB 2
Cinematic Objects: From the Screen to Painting.
Guided by Alejandra Vera, Paulina Silva, and Tatiana Fernández (La Raíz Lab)
April 4-5, 2025
Description
The objective of this workshop is to facilitate an interdisciplinary exploration of the symbolic, narrative and emotional functions of cinematic objects. The theoretical framework will then be applied to a practical exercise involving the creation of a visual representation.
Utilising a dualistic approach encompassing both theoretical and practical elements, participants will engage in a rigorous examination of how objects transcend their utilitarian function to become pivotal elements that define characters, establish the ambiance of eras, incite conflicts, or embody universal themes.
LAB 3
Feminist Creation of Expanded Cinema from the Archive
Guided by Rocío Mesa (Filmmaker)
May 14, 2025
University Institute for Research on Women's and Gender Studies (University of Granada) – Seminar Room 6
Free admission with prior registration at: gendermedialab@ugr.es (send us your name and the main reason why you want to take this workshop).
Description
This workshop offers a critical and experimental approach to the archive as a device for feminist audiovisual creation, from a perspective situated at the intersections of expanded cinema, visual anthropology, and nonlinear narratives. Using found materials, home recordings, and other elements and devices, we will explore strategies of reappropriation, displacement, and reinterpretation of obsolete images, understanding the archive not as a passive repository but as a living territory, crossed by tensions of power, memory, and subjectivity.
The workshop is designed as an intensive lab introducing key concepts such as expanded montage, film essay, reactivation of latent memories, and the creation of dissident narratives. Through editing exercises, collective dialogue, and intermedia explorations, participants will be invited to experiment with narrative forms that go beyond canonical processes and promote active listening to the visual remnants of the past.
This space is open to individuals over 18 years old from any background. It may be of particular interest to visual artists, filmmakers, researchers, anthropologists, and anyone interested in critical uses of the archive through contemporary audiovisual practices.
LAB 4
Ethnography and Cinema
Guided by Marian del Moral (Cultural Anthropologist)
June 13, 2025
University Institute for Research on Women's and Gender Studies (University of Granada)
PERMANENT SEMINAR ON ETHNOGRAPHY AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY
Session “Ethnography and Imaginaries”
National Coordination of Anthropology and National Ethnography Program (CNAN–PRONE)
20 November 2025
Mexico City
SEMINAR ON ANTHROPOLOGY AND CINEMA
Anthropologists and filmmakers researching and creating film from a contemporary anthropological approach.
Marian Del Moral: Film-ethnography: experimental methodologies in film creation by women.
Anna Fonoll-Tassier: From the “periphery”: contemporary Iberian documentary film made by women as a driver of change and experimentation.
Amanda Gutiérrez: The junkie in Spanish cinema: representations of the marginal body as a political territory and cinematic counter-narratives.
1–2 December 2025
Faculty of Communication Sciences (University of Malaga)
